2006 AMC 8

AMC 8 2006

1 Mindy made three purchases for $1.98, $5.04 and $9.89. What was her total,
to the nearest dollar?
(A) $10 (B) $15 (C) $16 (D) $17 (E) $18

2 On the AMC 8 contest Billy answers 13 questions correctly, answers 7 questions

incorrectly and doesn’t answer the last 5. What is his score?
(A) 1 (B) 6 (C) 13 (D) 19 (E) 26

3 Elisa swims laps in the pool. When she first started, she completed 10 laps in
25 minutes. Now she can finish 12 laps in 24 minutes. By how many minutes
has she improved her lap time?
1 3
(A) (B) (C) 1 (D) 2 (E) 3
2 4

1
4 Initially, a spinner points west. Chenille moves it clockwise 2 revolutions and
4
3
then counterclockwise 3 revolutions. In what direction does the spinner point
4
after the two moves?

W E

(A) north (B) east (C) south (D) west (E) northwest

5 Points A, B, C and D are midpoints of the sides of the larger square. If the
larger square has area 60, what is the area of the smaller square?

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D B

(A) 15 (B) 20 (C) 24 (D) 30 (E) 40

6 The letter T is formed by placing two 2 × 4 inch rectangles next to each other,
as shown. What is the perimeter of the T, in inches?

(A) 12 (B) 16 (C) 20 (D) 22 (E) 24

7 Circle X has a radius of π. Circle Y has a circumference of 8π. Circle Z has

an area of 9π. List the circles in order from smallest to largest radius.
(A) X, Y, Z (B) Z, X, Y (C) Y, X, Z (D) Z, Y, X (E) X, Z, Y

8 The table shows some of the results of a survey by radiostation KAMC. What
percentage of the males surveyed listen to the station?

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Listen Don’t Listen Total

Males ? 26 ?
Females 58 ? 96
Total 136 64 200
(A) 39 (B) 48 (C) 52 (D) 55 (E) 75

3 4 5 2006
9 What is the product of × × × ··· × ?
2 3 4 2005
(A) 1 (B) 1002 (C) 1003 (D) 2005 (E) 2006

10 Jorge’s teacher asks him to plot all the ordered pairs (w, l) of positive integers
for which w is the width and l is the length of a rectangle with area 12. What
should his graph look like?
(A)

(B)

(C)

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(D)

(E)

11 How many two-digit numbers have digits whose sum is a perfect square?
(A) 13 (B) 16 (C) 17 (D) 18 (E) 19

12 Antonette gets 70% on a 10-problem test, 80% on a 20-problem test and 90%
on a 30-problem test. If the three tests are combined into one 60-problem test,
which percent is closest to her overall score?
(A) 40 (B) 77 (C) 80 (D) 83 (E) 87

13 Cassie leaves Escanaba at 8:30 AM heading for Marquette on her bike. She
bikes at a uniform rate of 12 miles per hour. Brian leaves Marquette at 9:00
AM heading for Escanaba on his bike. He bikes at a uniform rate of 16 miles

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per hour. They both bike on the same 62-mile route between Escanaba and
Marquette. At what time in the morning do they meet?
(A) 10 : 00 (B) 10 : 15 (C) 10 : 30 (D) 11 : 00 (E) 11 : 30

14 Problems 14, 15 and 16 involve Mrs. Reed’s English assignment.

A Novel Assignment

The students in Mrs. Reed’s English class are reading the same 760-page novel.
Three friends, Alice, Bob and Chandra, are in the class. Alice reads a page in 20
seconds, Bob reads a page in 45 seconds and Chandra reads a page in 30 seconds.

If Bob and Chandra both read the whole book, Bob will spend how many
more seconds reading than Chandra?
(A) 7, 600 (B) 11, 400 (C) 12, 500 (D) 15, 200 (E) 22, 800

15 Problems 14, 15 and 16 involve Mrs. Reed’s English assignment.

A Novel Assignment

The students in Mrs. Reed’s English class are reading the same 760-page novel.
Three friends, Alice, Bob and Chandra, are in the class. Alice reads a page in 20
seconds, Bob reads a page in 45 seconds and Chandra reads a page in 30 seconds.

Chandra and Bob, who each have a copy of the book, decide that they can
save time by ”team reading” the novel. In this scheme, Chandra will read from
page 1 to a certain page and Bob will read from the next page through page
760, finishing the book. When they are through they will tell each other about
the part they read. What is the last page that Chandra should read so that
she and Bob spend the same amount of time reading the novel?
(A) 425 (B) 444 (C) 456 (D) 484 (E) 506

16 Problems 14, 15 and 16 involve Mrs. Reed’s English assignment.

A Novel Assignment

The students in Mrs. Reed’s English class are reading the same 760-page novel.
Three friends, Alice, Bob and Chandra, are in the class. Alice reads a page in 20
seconds, Bob reads a page in 45 seconds and Chandra reads a page in 30 seconds.

Before Chandra and Bob start reading, Alice says she would like to team read

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with them. If they divide the book into three sections so that each reads for
the same length of time, how many seconds will each have to read?
(A) 6400 (B) 6600 (C) 6800 (D) 7000 (E) 7200

17 Jeff rotates spinners P , Q and R and adds the resulting numbers. What is the
probability that his sum is an odd number?

P Q R
1 2 2 4 1 3
11 5
3 8 6 9 7

1 1 1 2 3
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
4 3 2 3 4

18 A cube with 3-inch edges is made using 27 cubes with 1-inch edges. Nineteen
of the smaller cubes are white and eight are black. If the eight black cubes are
placed at the corners of the larger cube, what fraction of the surface area of the
larger cube is white?
1 1 4 5 19
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
9 4 9 9 27

19 Triangle ABC is an isosceles triangle with AB = BC. Point D is the midpoint

of both BC and AE, and CE is 11 units long. Triangle ABD is congruent to
triangle ECD. What is the length of BD?

B E
D

A C

(A) 4 (B) 4.5 (C) 5 (D) 5.5 (E) 6

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20 A singles tournament had six players. Each player played every other player
only once, with no ties. If Helen won 4 games, Ines won 3 games, Janet won
2 games, Kendra won 2 games and Lara won 2 games, how many games did
Monica win?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4

21 An aquarium has a rectangular base that measures 100 cm by 40 cm and has

a height of 50 cm. The aquarium is tilled with water to a depth of 37 cm.
A rock with volume 1000cm3 is then placed in the aquarium and completely
submerged. By how many centimeters does the water level rise?
(A) 0.25 (B) 0.5 (C) 1 (D) 1.25 (E) 2.5

22 Three different one-digit positive integers are placed in the bottom row of cells.
Numbers in adjacent cells are added and the sum is placed in the cell above
them. In the second row, continue the same process to obtain a number in
the top cell. What is the difference between the largest and smallest numbers
possible in the top cell?

+ +

(A) 16 (B) 24 (C) 25 (D) 26 (E) 35

23 A box contains gold coins. If the coins are equally divided among six people,
four coins are left over. If the coins are equally divided among five people, three
coins are left over. If the box holds the smallest number of coins that meets
these two conditions, how many coins are left when equally divided among seven

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people?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 5

24 In the multiplication problem below, A, B, C and D are different digits. What

A B A
is A + B? × C D (A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 9

C D C D

25 Barry wrote 6 different numbers, one on each side of 3 cards, and laid the cards
on a table, as shown. The sums of the two numbers on each of the three cards
are equal. The three numbers on the hidden sides are prime numbers. What is
the average of the hidden prime numbers?

44 59 38

(A) 13 (B) 14 (C) 15 (D) 16 (E) 17

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